Trials and Tribulations: Auto Show 2007
6 January 2007
We'll be hearing a lot about the annual Auto Show over the next couple weeks, and I'm sure the lean bloggers will have a lot to say. The rules…
Home Depot's Eighth Waste
4 January 2007
Dan Markovitz is our guest blogger again today. Dan has been a regular contributor of articles to the Superfactory website and to the Evolving Excelle…
Wal-Mart Worships the False God
3 January 2007
It seems like every day another company decides to genuflect before the false god of the almighty algorithm. Regular readers know this is one of my pe…
Who Is GM's Customer?
2 January 2007
Dan Markovitz is our guest blogger today, with a post asking yet again if GM's leadership really gets it. Dan has been a regular contributor of ar…
Pushing Misery Up the Supply Chain
2 January 2007
A week ago we told you about how a combination of fake lean and traditional accounting is wreaking havoc at Whirlpool. Over a thousand people are bein…
Reminiscing... and Looking Forward
30 December 2006
The turn of the new year stimulates many of us to look back... and hopefully look forward. This is important, and could even be construed to be the &q…
First Airbus, Now Volkswagen
30 December 2006
I know it's not just a German or even European thing, but this morning we have yet another example of our friends from across the pond promoting a…
Questioning Lean
28 December 2006
Over the past year I've given Dr. Shahrukh Irani of Ohio State a pretty hard time, especially in the post The False God of the Almighty Algorithm.…